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TIL 4-year-olds about 200 to 300 questions every day. Warren Berger, the author of A More Beautiful Question, says kids pose a normal of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5.

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b9jQ9 TIL Scientists reveal how 34.5 million-year-old fish fossils help build up rare earth mineral deposits used to make LED, wind turbines, and rechargeable batteries
4XmZX TIL of Ann Hodges, the only known and confirmed meteorite victim in human history. The meteorite breaks through their ceiling one afternoon in 1954 while she was sleeping on her couch and left a large bruise in her thigh. The meteorite was eventually donated to Alabama Museum of Natural History.
N7ZjM TIL There is a species of land snail that is named after wildlife expert Steve Irwin. The species is named "Crikey Steveirwini."
ePNk TIL that both co-directors of King Kong appeared in the 1933 film as the pilots who finally killed him, because “We should kill the sonofabitch ourselves.”
l5P7 TIL that besides his success as an actor, Jackie Chan is also a singer in Asia, singing in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and Taiwanese